Roundtable Discussion at UN Climate Convention Meeting
"Many Small Voices: The Arctic and Small Island Developing States
Working Together to Address Climate Change"
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
GRID-Arendal
Date: Tuesday, 6 December 2005
Time: 1:00-1:45 p.m.
Place: Guy Favreau Complex (Salle Mousseau) in Montreal, Quebec
For further information, please contact:
John Crump
Phone: 613-255-3840
E-mail: <John.Crump [at] grida.no
The United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal invite you to
a roundtable discussion at the UN Climate Convention meeting in Montreal
(COP XI) entitled "Many Small Voices: The Arctic and Small Island
Developing States Working Together to Address Climate Change." The
roundtable will take place on Arctic Day, Tuesday, 6 December 2005, from
1:00-1:45 p.m. at the Guy Favreau Complex (Salle Mousseau).
Roundtable participants:
Klaus Topfer, Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme
Sheila Watt Cloutier, International Chair
Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Taito Nakalevu, Climate Change Adaptation Officer
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Moderator:
Karen Kraft Sloan, Canada's Ambassador for the Environment
"Climate change has an impact on almost every aspect of our lives. Most
of our rural communities are still very dependent on natural resources
such as fisheries, agriculture, or forestry to earn a living, but
because of climate change, these resources are becoming scarcer."
--Taito Nakalevu, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
"What is at stake here is not just the extinction of animals but the
extinction of Inuit as a hunting culture. Climate change in the Arctic
is a human issue, a family issue, a community issue, and an issue of
cultural survival. The joining of circumpolar peoples with Pacific
Island and Caribbean States is surely part of the answer in addressing
these issues. Many small voices can make a loud noise"
--Sheila Watt Cloutier, Inuit Circumpolar Conference